2008/9/28 . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > you missed the weasel keywords "shall endeavour".
> in fact, the 93rd Amendment to the Constitution (2002?) made the right to > free and compulsory education absolute. And the Finance Ministry's been > collecting a 2% cess on Income Tax ostensibly to fund universalisation of > elementary education for a few years now. > > > since we're 50 years late on this, free education in india for anything > > more than primary education is a real pipe dream! > > constitutionally ingrained weasel keywords allows any govt. to > continue the pipe dream for the next 500 years. If the education > quality in state/govt schools sucks big-time, bringing every school > under that sucky umbrella will force each parent to demand better > education quality and hence hopefully usher in change. > > > > (let's build more bombs instead) > -- 'Optimists refuse to acknowledge reality. Idealists remind us that it isn't fixed.' -Susan Neiman
